The Praise Chapel Christian Fellowship is a church multiplication movement, centered in Los Angeles, California. Praise Chapel is an international family of churches and ministries, and as of February 26, 2019, Praise Chapel has grown to over 300 churches in the United States and over 4300 internationally. Vision Praise Chapel Christian Fellowship's vision is summarized as the following: "Evangelize (win) the Lost, Disciple (build) the Believers and Multiply (send out) through Church Planting". This declaration is summarized as "Win-Build-Send". History Before the Praise Chapel Christian Fellowship became an international fellowship, pastor Michael Neville and his family began their ministry after moving to southeast Los Angeles, from their original home church in Oklahoma. The small church was founded in Maywood, California as the "Rosewood Assembly" in May 1975. Over the course of their ministry, Maywood had transitioned from a predominantly middle-class, white area, to a predominantly Hispanic community. Seeing this transition, Michael Neville viewed it to be imperative, that the demographic composition of a church within a community should reflect the community at large. Members who were not comfortable with change left the church, but the church soon began to take on a much more multicultural profile, recruiting even among young gang members, prostitutes and drug-dealers. The church quickly began to grow through the conversion of the disparaged and rejected among the community, who would later on go to pastor their own churches. Since many of the new converts came from gangs and street-life, other denominations and fellowships refused to open doors for them to assimilate and pastor. Michael Neville then began to send these men and women out to pioneer churches under the umbrella of the Praise Chapel Christian Fellowship. The movement reached a zenith in 1980, after the first church was established in Ontario, California. Since that time, over 300 churches have been planted across the United States and a total of 4300 churches worldwide have been established. After Michael Neville Michael Neville died in January 1996 at 49 years of age. Thousands of lives have been greatly influenced by Pastor Neville's leadership. He often embraced those who had never experienced genuine acceptance and convinced them of their value and worth. Those great qualities gave those around him the confidence to enter into often difficult locations and situations. His wife, Donna Neville, would eventually become the pastor of a church in Huntington Park, California. In recent years, Michael and